An uptight Marion Cotillard is an orca trainer and loses her lust for life along with her legs. A morally exhausted amateur boxer tries to present a life for himself and his son, and brings back money as a guard and on streetfights. The glamour factor is as low as in Jacques Audiard’s earlier masterpieces, but there is a strange romance about it. Maybe it’s simply about Cotillards femininity, because both The Beat That My Heart Skipped and A Prophet was fairly laddish pieces. Then is her character not exactly pricess charming, handling the betting at street fights. Mattias Schonaerts was great as the silent and castrated bull breeder in Bullhead, here he is as quiet though there is a reluctant warmth in the way he takes care of his son. The romanticism is a bit difficult to access, and you don’t really like the boxer, but there is something going on. Audiard is a master of slow character development. Then it’s fascinating – technically – how they made Cottilards legs disappear. They’re just not there! That’s what I thought about most of all.